Elliston Wright (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Revised edition. Book - very good, dust jacket - good+ (repaired tear to front). A few nature notes with lists of flora, macro lepidoptera and birds known to occur in the district. Map. Occasional pencil annotations.

Coloured frontis, illusts, folding map, 106pp, original cloth, partly faded, presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth binding, colour slightly fading and has gone yellow down spine, clean otherwise. All pages clean and clear, nothing interrupts text or images. 190mm x 132mm.

1932, revised edn. pps.157, well illustrated with a large folding map. V.G. copy of hardback edn.

First editions, with the ownership signatures of the author Henry Williamson (1895-1977) on the front free endpapers, each dated the year of publication. Braunton has an ink doodle by Williamson of his owl emblem - which first appeared in The Lone Swallows (1922) - and Ilfracombe the presentation label of the Ilfracombe Field Club. Williamson is best known as the creator of Tarka the Otter. Elliston-Wright (1879-1966) was a distinguished botanist from North Devon who was an authority on the Sagina genus and the sand dunes of Braunton. He was a close friend of Williamson and inspired the character of "The Doctor" in The Scandaroon (1972). 2 works, quarto & octavo. Frontispieces, 8 plates, 2 folding maps. Original green and blue cloth, spines and front covers lettered in white, blue, and brown. Braunton spine and Ilfracombe covers toned, ends and corners bumped, boards a little splayed, contents of Ilfracombe lightly foxed: very good copies.